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My own budget code for buying books for African Studies
2008-04-15 08:49:00
I have "finally" gotten my own budget code for buying books for African studies. I would be more than happy receiving book suggestions. It's not a very big budget but its a start. This is our collection for african studies bought in recent years. So if you have a title not on the list and just couldn't wait to tell me about it why not give me a reply/comment.
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Project Muse journals-RSS feeds table of contents
2008-04-09 15:24:00
Here is a Grazr widget with the Project MUSE RSS feeds of their indexed journals and their table of contents.
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Today's Book Recommendation: Ancient marks : the sacred origins of tattoos
2008-04-09 09:45:00
A beautiful book about tattoos and body modification. Lots of nice black and white photos collected through journeys made by Chris Rainier. It's photos of a lot of different people in different settings. You could find the book in our library collection at this location.
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Dimdim-Free live meeting, Web conference..
2008-04-09 09:23:00
Dimdim is a free web meeting service based on open source platform. Here you could share desktops, show slides, chat, interact via webcam etc.
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Newseum - Daily newspaper front pages
2008-04-09 09:12:00
Newseum, watch 621 daily newspaper front pages from 61 countries. A nice way to start off your day at work?
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Nice features in the ask.com blogsearch
2008-04-08 14:00:00
The Ask.com search engine has nice features in the blogsearch interface making it possible to export to different platforms.
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Ping your blog easily
2008-04-08 12:32:00
Through the blogflux service you could ping you blog and notify several different services about your new blog updates, services like feedster, feedburner, technorati etc. Give it a try!
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Google search on Iphone
2008-04-07 18:18:00
Google has 50 times more searches on Apple‘s iPhone than any other mobile handset. A remarkable trend definetly worth mentioning. See article
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MSN-75 green websites.
2008-04-07 13:33:00
75 green websites, a project collecting resources for finding the best information on environmental issues on the web today.
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Yahoo! GREEN
2008-04-07 13:29:00
Yahoo! GREEN, a section of Yahoo focusing on green environmental issues and sustainable environment.
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BookCrossing
2008-04-07 13:27:00
The world's biggest free book club. 661 304 people in over 130 countries. Signing up is free and could be done here.

Radical cartography
2008-04-07 13:10:00
Radical cartography, a collection of fun,spectacular and lovely maps, some standard maps,links on GIS data, Google Earth layers and a recommended reading list.
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Qwika
2008-04-07 13:02:00
The Qwika search engine indexes 1158 wikis in 12 languages searching a total of 21,964,380 articles.

Open Source Geospatial Foundation
2008-04-07 13:00:00
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation has been created to support and build the highest-quality open source geospatial software. The foundation's goal is to encourage the use and collaborative development of community-led projects.
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MapServer
2008-04-07 12:58:00
MapServer is an Open Source development environment for building spatially-enabled internet applications. MapServer is not a full-featured GIS system, nor does it aspire to be. Instead, MapServer excels at rendering spatial data (maps, images, and vector data) for the web.

OpenStreetMap
2008-04-07 12:54:00
OpenStreetMap is a free editable map of the whole world.OpenStreetMap allows you to view, edit and use geographical data in a collaborative way from anywhere on Earth.

GeoNames
2008-04-07 12:52:00
The GeoNames geographical database is available for download free of charge under a creative commons attribution license. It contains over eight million geographical names and consists of 6.5 million unique features whereof 2.2 million populated places and 1.8 million alternate names. All features are categorized into one out of nine feature classes and further subcategorized into one out of 645 feature codes. (more statistics ...).The data is accessible free of charge through a number of webservices and a daily database export. GeoNames is already serving up to over 11 million web service requests per day.

Iphone/Ipod Touch Webapps
2008-03-31 08:39:00
Here is a small collection of webapps presented in a Grazr widget layout optimized for Iphone . The opml reading list is a collection of webapps that I have found useful. The list have no direct links to bookmarklets due to the fact that if you want a functional reading list you have to include the "http:// tag", a tag not included in javascript bookmarklets, but I have links to collection of bookmarklets presented on webpages.
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Bookmarklets and Ipod Touch/Iphone
2008-03-25 10:28:00
Safari bookmarklets could make your information retrieval a lot easier when using Ipod Touch or Iphone . A bookmarklet is an applet, a small computer application, stored as the URL of a bookmark in a web browser or as a hyperlink on a web page. The term is a portmanteau of the terms bookmark and applet.Whether bookmarklet utilities are stored as bookmarks or hyperlinks, they are designed to add one-click functionality to a browser or web page. When clicked, a bookmarklet performs some function, one of a wide variety such as a search query or data extraction. Usually the applet is a JavaScript program.Here is some links to actual bookmarklets and the topic:Pimpmysafari AndyBudd bookmarkletsHere is a small selfmade bookmarklet to conduct a simple search in the Norwegian BIBSYS library catalogue system.Here is a bookmarklet for copy and paste functionality not yet present with iphone/ipod Touch.

PDAs, Handhelds and Mobile Technologies in Libraries
2008-03-18 09:15:00
Here comes a resource list on the topic collected by Megan K Fox Web & Electronic Resources Librarian Simmons College Library. In growing numbers libraries has to deal with handheld mobile technologies.
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"This blogs twin brother"
2008-03-12 13:58:00
Take a look at the exported xml file in a new wordpress template at this location.
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Mobispine-Rss feeds on the go...
2008-03-12 12:53:00
Mobispine-Your favourite news, blogs and feeds on the go. Direct your mobile browser to get.mobispine.com and download the mobile client. Once you have an account you could add rss bookmarks and export/import opml files. Once you have downloaded the mobile client your unique Mobispine UserID and password could be easily found in the Mobispine application on your mobile. This you have to use to log onto your account on your PC to customize your feeds list.

Web site tip of the day-Mister Wong
2008-03-11 10:57:00
Mister Wong is one of the leading social bookmarking services with portals in 6 languages and over 4 million visitors per month.This is a great site with a huge amount of interesting links to subject related topics, latest technology, or just plain bookmark storing and sharing.
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SDK for Iphone/Ipod Touch released
2008-03-11 10:51:00
Finally Apple has released their SDK for Iphone /Ipod Touch making it possible for developers to make applications. The SDK package could be downloaded here. Technical Requirements: Intel processor-based Mac running Mac OS X Leopard.
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Book tip of the day
2008-03-11 10:41:00
Peter Stark: At the mercy of the river ISBN:0-345-44181-8A true exploration of the last african wilderness. A breathtaking journey down the Lugenda River in the Niassa province of Mozambique. The 750-kilometeres rivercourse is largely uncharted-dotted with rapids, waterfalls and home to deadly crocodiles and hippos. Another challenge was the fact that two of his four travel companions were not skilled kayakers.
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